The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-15

And can show the marks of it!
COddIed Like Babies.
| PET DOGS WHICH LIVE A LIFE OF ROYAL
LUXURY.
Pet dogs are not always beautiful nor
amiable, and yet what young man has
not, at some moment, longed to be a
pet dog? To be caressed by the sweet
est hand and voice in the wide world,
to be called thousand fond names in
as many moments, to live in a land of
swan s-down and honey, and to be
waited on like prince The pet dogs
of fashionable ladies lead lives of luxury
and splendor often denied the husband
and children of the family.
An advertisement appeared recently
calling for maid for a pet poodle,
who understands thoroughly how to
wash and dress, feed and nurse dogs,
and the care of their wardrobes. Must
be pretty, gentle and refined. Wages
$40 month.
A maid for a dog! Ladies' maids are
often expected to wash and comb lap
dogs and to take them out for an airing,
but an expensive maid for the exclusive
benefit Of the pet dog seemed to be an
oddity.
1t is said, however, that in New York
there are dozens of dog maids; most of
them get excellent wages and have a
comparatively easy time.
A young woman who had served in
this capacity at the home of wealthy
matron of Fifth avenue for several months
told reporter about her various duties
to His Majesty, little King Charles
spaniel.
HE always slept in little bedroom
next to my mistress, she said, 'and his
bed was real little brass bedstead with
/ d t-terf,s-5pring and d hair mattress, and
he had silk sheets and little quilt of
down, besides rose-colored curtains and
a small feather pillow. In the room
stood his little painted bathtub, his case
OF brushes and combs, and small table
on which I combed him. I was never
permitted to wake him until 9 O'Clock,
but I had to sit in the room in case he
should wake. Then gave him dish
o; beef soup to strengthen him and pre-
pared his bath.
His mistress always came in to see
that didn't hurt him. He was washed
in lukewarm water and the finest of cas-
tile soap, and dipped in rosewater be-
fore drying. Then I had an hours task
combing and brushing out his long silky
hair, putting on one of his various COL
lars and taking him down to the break
fast room. He always ate with his mis-
tress, when her husband wasn't there.
ooh, no, he wasn't cross dog at all.
He used to make me almost cry, he
boxed so sad, as though he was too
much petted. One day when out car
riage riding he died, and was buried in
little white casket all lined with satin
in the garden up at the family country
seat.
Then was recommended to lady
to be maid to her pug dog. only
stayed there two weeks. He was a
dreadful dog. The lady gave him choc-
olate for breakfast, and always kept a
box of the most expensive candies where
he could 60 and help himself, and every
time I went to wash him he would snap
and bite and act dreadful. His mistress
said it was because | wasn't gentle
enough with darling, sensitive Philip,
as she called him, SO one day not long
ago, just dumped him into bath of
cold water and left. Why, you know,
that dog was SO fat he couldn't turn his
head, and he wouldn't eat anything that
didn't have sugar in it.
These two dogs are fair examples OF
the little creatures that women of fashion
pet and spend their time and money on.
Very few young girls possess lap-dogs:
They prefer St. Bernards, settlers and
collies that can take care of themselves.
Most women who have small dogs are
over 20 and married. The reason for
this is not easily explained. Some wo-
men say they must have something on
which to shower their love and devotion,
and dog is the best they can do. When
it is suggested that it would be of greater
benefit to humanity if they would adopt
some child, they exclaim, with shrug
'What! take child from the slums
and pet it7 Mercy! 1t might bring
some dreadful disease into the house, OF
turn out q thief or something else a:
bad!' And so the dog is everything
expensive, fed on the fat of the land ano
mourned sincerely when it dies.
There is little man who lives in one
of the New York side streets uptown
over large livery stable, and he earns
an excellent living by cutting and fitting
dog clothes. He keeps stock of flint
broadcloths, silks, braids, bright buttons
and other necessaries on hand and sew
away from morning till night on the Gu
| rious little garments.
Il learnt the tailor's trade many year
ago. he said to reporter, 'and after
became so lame with the rheumatism
that I couldn't be coachman or but
Ter any more took to this trade. M.
customers are the best people in the city
this was said with great pride--'ant
I have made coats for some of the mos
costly dogs. Only yesterday there wa
a lady in here who wanted me to max
promenade jacket of hunters gree
and scarlet for her little black and tan
He only weighs pound and a half ant
cost 5000, she told me-.
The jacket for this minute specime1
of canine beauty was brought out AM
displayed. 1t measured just six inche